THE MUSIC PAINT MACHINE - A Multimodal Interactive Platform to Stimulate Musical Creativity in Instrumental Practice

Luc Nijs, Pieter Coussement, Chris Muller, Micheline Lesaffre, Marc Leman · 2010

Interactive music systems offer new possibilities to support instrumental music teaching by providing a corporeally grounded experience as a basis for understanding music and music playing. In this paper we introduce the Music Paint Machine, a device that enables music performers to make a painting on a computer screen by playing their instrument. It is hypothesized that using this application stimulates understanding and creative use of musical parameters.

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